agentic-coding

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Compound Engineering Turns Team Process Into an Installable Agent Workflow

The most useful thing about Every’s Compound Engineering plugin is that it refuses to pretend the agent is the process. That sounds like faint praise. It is not. A large chunk of the AI coding market still sells the fantasy that the workflow is “ask the model, receive software.

11 May 2026 5 min read

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Agent Harnesses Need Observability Before They Get More Autonomy

The next serious feature in coding agents is not “more autonomy.” It is the right to earn more autonomy by leaving a trail. That is the useful signal in the latest work on Everything Claude Code, the very large agent-harness repository that now describes itself as a performance optimization system

11 May 2026 5 min read

agentic-coding

Claude Code’s System Prompts Are Now a Changefeed for Agent Governance

The most important Claude Code changelog this week did not come from Anthropic’s marketing team. It came from a third-party GitHub repository that diffs the text Claude Code carries inside itself: system prompts, tool descriptions, sub-agent instructions, compaction prompts, security-review language, slash-command behavior, and the quiet policy glue that

10 May 2026 5 min read

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Agent Skills Are Becoming the Portable Layer Between Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor

The most important file in your coding-agent stack may not be your model config. It may be a markdown file with YAML frontmatter and a deceptively boring name: SKILL.md. VoltAgent’s awesome-agent-skills repository is useful because it makes that shift visible. The repo describes itself as a curated collection

10 May 2026 4 min read

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Claude Code’s URL Plugins Turn Agent Extensions Into a Supply-Chain Problem

Claude Code’s Week 19 update looks like a convenience release until you read the two new ideas together: plugins can now be loaded straight from zip archives or URLs, and auto mode can now enforce hard_deny rules that override broader allow policies. That pairing is the story. Anthropic

10 May 2026 4 min read

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Vibe Coding’s Security Problem Is Invisible Production

The security problem with vibe coding is not that generated code sometimes has bugs. That is true, but it is the smaller story. The bigger story is that prompt-to-app tools are creating a new production surface outside the engineering perimeter: apps with URLs, databases, forms, customer data, and business logic

09 May 2026 5 min read

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Codex Plugins Make Agent Workflows Installable — and Auditable

Codex plugins are easy to describe as a convenience feature: install Gmail, connect Drive, pull Slack context, expose a few MCP tools, move on. That framing is too small. Plugins are the moment Codex workflows become installable software. And once agent workflows are installable, they inherit the same old problems

09 May 2026 6 min read

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Codex 0.130.0 Turns Agent Configuration Into Product Surface

Codex 0.130.0 looks like a normal release note until you read it less like a changelog and more like a map of where AI coding tools are going. The headline is not one feature. It is the accumulation: plugins with visible hooks, shareable workflow metadata, a headless remote-control

09 May 2026 5 min read

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Gemini 3.1 Deep Think Is Google’s Answer to the Frontier Benchmark Knife Fight

Google’s Gemini 3.1 Deep Think update is not interesting because another lab found another benchmark where it can print a bigger number. That game is now mostly a knife fight in a spreadsheet. It is interesting because Google is no longer asking developers to believe Gemini is catching

09 May 2026 4 min read

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Codex for Chrome Turns Browser State Into an Agent Tool — Useful, Risky, and Finally Honest About It

Codex getting a Chrome extension is not a cute convenience feature. It is OpenAI admitting the quiet part of agentic software work: the code editor is not where most work ends. Modern engineering tasks leak into browsers constantly. A bug fix needs a local preview, an internal admin screen, a

08 May 2026 5 min read

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Claude Code’s May 7 Release Is an Enterprise Hygiene Patch Wearing a Changelog Costume

Claude Code’s May 7 release does not look like the kind of changelog that wins social media. Good. The flashy phase of coding agents has already produced enough demos. What matters now is whether these tools survive contact with enterprise networks, concurrent sessions, managed policy, OAuth edge cases, worktree

08 May 2026 5 min read

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Claude Code’s New Limits Are a Capacity Story, Not a Generosity Story

Claude Code’s new limits are being sold as relief for power users. That is true, but too small. The more useful read is that one of the most important developer tools in the AI market has become constrained by the same unglamorous things that constrain every real platform: power,

08 May 2026 5 min read

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